Troppo Divertente!!!
DA FACEBOOK GROUP "GREEKS INVENTED EVERYTHING"
You know you are Greek if...
*You have at least one relative who wore a black dress every day for an entire year after a funeral... or their entire life!
*You spent your entire childhood thinking what you ate for lunch was pronounced "sangwich."
*Your family dog understood Greek.
*Every Sunday afternoon of your childhood was spent visiting papou and yiayia or extended family.
*You've experienced the phenomena of 150 people fitting into 50 square feet of yard during a family cookout.
*You were surprised to discover the FDA recommends you eat three meals day, not seven.
*You thought killing the lamb each year and having feta, tzatziki and olives on your dinner table was absolutely normal.
*You grew up thinking no fruit or vegetable had a fixed price and that the price of everything was negotiable through haggling.
*You were as tall as yiayia by the age of seven.
*You thought nylons were supposed to be worn rolled to the ankles.
*Mamas main hobby is cleaning.
*You were surprised to find out that wine was actually sold in stores.
*You never knew what to expect when you opened the margarine, after all you thought washing out and reusing margarine containers was normal.
*You thought Orthodoxy was the only religion in the world.
*You thought every meal had to be eaten with a hunk of bread in your left hand.
*Yiayia never threw anything away, you thought seeing washed plastic bags hanging on the clothes line was normal.
*You learned to play tavli before you went to school.
*You have at least one relative who came over on the boat.
*You have relatives who aren't really your relatives.
*You drank wine before you were a teenager.
*You grew up in a house with a yard that didn't have one patch of dirt that didn't have a flower or a vegetable growing out of it.
*You thought that talking loud was normal.
*You thought everyone got pinched on the cheeks and money stuffed in their pockets by their relatives.
*Your mother is overly protective of the males in the family no matter what their age.
*There was an icon in every room of the house, including the bathroom.
*You wear or at least own a gold chunky bracelet.
*Garlic is considered a main meal.
*Olive oil is like a drug - you can't survive without it.
*You don't know half your relatives.
*You have a wedding at least twice a year.
*You or at least most of your uncles own a spit
*You consider soccer the eighth wonder of the world.
*Your cheeks receive their weekly work out every time you visit an aunt.
*Your last name ends with: opolous, os, as, or is
*Your last name consists of the entire alphabet
*When leaving a house, you stand at the front door for a half hour more and talk
*You arrive 2 hours late to a party and think that is normal
*Your church has a fully loaded bar
*No air conditioning is on at the house or you'll get sick... "regma"
*You only speak Greek at home
*You were forced to go to Greek school when you were little
*You use plastic grocery bags as garbage bags
*Your parents have never realized phone connections have gotten better in the last 20 years and still continue to scream on the phone when calling Greece
*You expect atleast 600 people at your wedding
*Your 15 year old brother/sister can out drink ANY American guy
*Your only vacation is back to the homeland
*You tell your parents you're seeing someone and they start sending out wedding invitations.
*You're home an hour late and you're already listed as a missing person.
*You're Dad has those old Greek tapes in the car, and plays them on family drives. Especially in the vicinity of attractive members of the opposite sex.
*You break a leg, and yiayia thinks your life is over.
*You tell your parents you're having a party. They buy out the whole supermarket.
*It doesn't matter if people can't hear what you're talking about - you talk so much with your hands that people know what you're going on about anyway.
*You go to a wedding, and take a fancy to one of the guests. Later you discover that the guest is somehow related to you. =(
*You go to a wedding, and are introduced to cousins that you never knew existed.
*You tell mama you're not hungry and she thinks you have an eating disorder.
*You can distinguish between kefalotiri and kefalograviera
*You're an adult and are forced to be with your family at 12 midnight on New Year's eve
*Your yiayia / mama / thia has a miracle cure for everything.
*If you're a girl, your mother still tries to put those pony tail holders with the BIG plastic balls on the end on your hair.
*If you're a guy, your mother still tries to make you wear that super frilly dress shirt with that huge bow tie, because it looked so cute when you were 7.
*Your mother or father still feels the need to tell you, "katse kala" in public
*You have been hit at some point with a pandofla
*You can dance kalamatiano, tsamiko, zembekiko without music
*You go to church picnics pretending you're there for reasons other than to check up / gossip about other Greeks
*You or a family member has been photographed with a donkey
*You are familiar with the phrase, "Sto leo yia to kalo sou"
*You have one or more of those porcelain figurines in your house or you have broken one of those porcelain figurines and mama still hasn't forgiven you for it
*Your parents make up the name of a street / store / TV show because they couldn't remember it or they couldn't pronounce it
*You still get scared when you hear the name "Baboola"
*Upon meeting another Greek you try to find out what village they're from
*You or a family member wears their Sunday best to go grocery shopping
*You were spanked by your friend's parents because your parents gave them permission to
*You go to a wedding or a baptism and complain about the food, but are the first one to ask for a "to go" plate
*You know someone who always feels the need to point out how much something they bought costs
*You have a bottle of OUZO in your house right now
*You have been threatened to be eaten by the Kako/ baboola / yero / pontiki when you were little
*Add aki to the end of any American word, and it becomes Greek
*Someone in your family owns any type of restaurant
*Your family inheritance includes olive trees and xorafyia
*Your entire house is a needlepoint warehouse...
